C.S. Friedman Quotes

Remember, the difference between the world frozen over, in an ice ball, and the warming period we're in now is just 6 degrees centigrade. A change of just 1 degree can have a huge effect.

The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles from off the Earth.

The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ... because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending.

You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.

The main health hazard in the world today is people who don't love themselves.

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

In six days the Lord created the heavens and the earth and all the wonders therein. There are some of us who feel that He might have taken just a little more time.

Man's ability to delude himself is infinite.

Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.

Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".

Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.

There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.

A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

I think a major reason why intellectuals tend to move towards collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one. If there's something wrong, pass a law and do something about it.

The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.

The people I respect all died broke and despairing. They didn't leave a lot of hammered iron behind them like Donald Trump has done.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."

I think there are worse things than war. For example, injustice.

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

Prospecting - Find the man with the problem.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

There are more inspirational people in music than there are in politics.

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

The Arab awakening was like watching elephants fly: something you didn't expect, something you haven't seen before, "Wow, elephants fly."

Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor.

Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.

When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift-which you give yourself-is courage to live it to the fullest. Time goes by quickly, and you cannot take it for granted.